DESCRIPTION: Here is a set of wonderful candlesticks made at a sword-manufacturer's firm. When collectors see candlesticks such as these they usually shrug in horror! The thought that anyone would cut down a perfectly good sword to make candlesticks is naturally repugnant to a collector. However, gentlemen, you can relax because there is no need to be upset. The sword parts were extras that almost every manufacturer used to construct these neat things; usually as gifts presented to outlet stores or their proprietors to curry favor with the manufacturer and as an inducement to carry their products. They make a great display item, indeed. They are very dramatic and entirely militaristic. This pair is constructed with the Prussian Cavalry Degen model 1884, with the folding basket guard.

PRICE: $495.00 for the pair

Extra-fine Saxon Sword (Item KWEP 2-3)

DESCRIPTION: This is a wonderful sword from the Imperial era. It's a very scarce Saxon weapon signed Eisenhauer Garantirt (iron maker guarentie). It has the double-lion Saxon crest on the guard and the cipher of the royal palace at the blade's riccasso. The wire-wrapped sharkskin grip is sound and practically unscathed. The guard where the Saxon crest is featured has much of the original gold wash still intact. It measures 39 inches long. Unfortunately, no scabbard is with this sword and we are looking for one vigorously. Can you help? The sword has the (triple) blood grooves as is the style of Saxon swords and the blade is in extremely fine condition. Inside of the blood grooves are the letters proclaiming "Carl Loose nach Hofflieferant Leipzig." Hofflieferant" means maker to the palace, and the quality of this one makes it obvious that Carl Lose was a master sword smith that the royal palace would certainly value. As is without scabbard.

PRICE: $1,350.00

German War Souvenir Sword
(Item KWEP 2-5)

DESCRIPTION: This is a French Cavalry sword from 1877 in wonderful shape. It was the souvenir of a Deutsche Soldat who brought it home in 1917 having found it in an abandoned farmhouse in France. It is the very typical heavy cavalry sword with the leather-covered, wire-wrapped grip. We were told that Grandfather, at great cost, had it plated gold to look even more elegant hanging in the Prussian home parlor. The sword is in unusually fine shape except for a couple of dents in the scabbard. These are the natural dents acquired when such a weapon is swinging loose from a saddle. The sword is huge: 43 ½ inches long in the scabbard with a massive blade measuring over 1 inch thick. It has the French armory identifying wording on top of the blade with date and it is referred to as model 1822. Not only is this a beautiful “hanger upper,” but is important as a piece of history from several vantage points.